I have not visited the website for awhile and apologize profusely. I will tell you what I have been up to!
I have been working very hard on my book and think I have a title selected – finally! It will be titled Hear Me Now – Growing Up Deaf and is the story of only my life, but a whole lot more. The book includes information on what it is like to be hard of hearing, and then profoundly deaf, information on Deaf Culture and how to understand better what it is like to have breakdowns in communication.
I am old fashioned because I think well when I use long hand – there is something about transferring to the page from the brain. I have finished the approximately 91 chapters in longhand. I am learning to use my laptop and go off to different coffee shops almost every day. Local donut shops like Mary Anne donuts, Star bucks, and Dunkin donuts – I like them all. Then I come home and transfer from the flash drive to my mainframe and large desktop computer. I have double screens and it is easier and faster for me personally to use the larger computer and get my copy ready for the publisher. Then comes the tedious job of rewriting and revising and redoing over and over again!
My remission has been wonderful, but now my white blood count is down again. We’re not sure if this means I am going out of remission or if it was just a fluke. But, in addition to the Procrit shots I am now on Zarxio shots to increase both my red and white blood counts. But it is soooo much better than being on the chemo with all the side effects and I am enjoying it immensely.
i also am very proud of the fact that I have written more than 100 articles for Cure Magazine and they mentioned this in social media!
I spent last weekend at Ellicottville, New York at a wonderful wedding anniversary for my deaf friends Bill and Tressa Jordan. They are very special, and Tressa was one of the people who encouraged me to get Sita, my hearing ear dog!
Now the country is in a massive heat wave so I am hunkering down and doing some writing this weekend. I hope everyone stays cool and safe!